Index on Censorship

Article	Citations
Zooming in on privacy concerns: Video app Zoom is surging in popularity. In our rush to stay connected, we need to make security checks and not reveal more than we think	25
Forced out of the closet: As people live out more of their lives online right now, our report highlights how LGBTQ dating apps can put people’s lives at risk	9
Jennings	5
Social media platforms have a moral duty to ban misinformation about vaccines: Two leading thinkers on vaccine hesitancy and misinformation debate this crucial question	5
“The idea is to kill journalism”: Kashmiri journalists on what it’s like working under lockdown, an internet blackout and a new draconian media law	4
Dying for the mother tongue: Why have people in Inner Mongolia recently taken their lives?	3
Open book? In India, where people are forced to download a tracking app to get paid, journalists are worried about it also being used to access their contacts	3
Sending a red signal: When a contact tracing app went wrong a journalist was forced to stay in their home in China	2
Another explosion for Lebanon: The blast in Beirut made international headlines. Even before that the nation was in turmoil and it has only worsened the mental health crisis	2
Italy’s bad internet connection: Italians have one of the lowest levels of digital skills in Europe and are struggling to understand implications of the new pandemic world	2
Democracy versus the people: Mali has seen a government coup following escalating protests. What has caused the unrest?	2
Generation app: How do diff erent generations feel about sharing personal data in order to tackle Covid-19? We ask people in South Korea, Spain and Italy	2
Royally silenced: As students campaign against lèse-majesté laws, the Thai exile and royal critic with a Facebook group of two million followers considers their fate	2
The double closet	2
Long march towards cultural genocide: As news emerges of the present horrors happening in Xinjiang, an expert on the region looks at its recent history	2
Nonsense and sensibility: An interview with the bestselling author about society’s slide into a total surveillance state	1
Another black day for Poland: The attack on women’s reproductive rights caused mass protests. Duda’s re-election gave it legitimacy	1
Crown confidential	1
Down with a disclaimer	1
A climate of fear	1
Two faces of On Liberty: Liberal institutions are becoming more censorial. Is the philosopher John Stuart Mill to blame?	1
Fishrot, the global stench of scandal	1
Inside story: Hungary’s media silence: What’s it like working as a journalist under the new rules introduced by Hungary’s Viktor Orbán? How hard is it to report?	1
Bollywood’s Code Orange	1
Who Speaks for IOWA? The owner of a small-town radio station talks about feeling ignored in the rural USA	1

The clockwork show	1
Emotional baggage	1
The eyes of the storm: Spies are on the streets of Uganda making sure everyone abides by Covid-19 rules. They’re spying on political opposition too. A dispatch from Kampala	1
How to challenge China: How do we make a global power sit up and take notice? These experts offer advice	1
Amin’s awful story is much more than popcorn for the eyes	1
It’s not easy being green	1
Killed by the truth	1
“There’s nobody left to speak”: First they came for the journalists. Then they came for the lawyers and activists. Who can speak out in today’s India?	1
Fighting for Covid information: Meet the people who are ensuring that even those in the most censored environments receive accurate information on the pandemic	1
Exposing Saudi’s nasty tactics	1
Virus masks a different threat: China is using Covid-19 responses and Hong Kong’s new security law to reduce freedoms in the city state	1
Fighting back against the menace of Slapps	1
The staged suicide that haunts Brazil	1
Censoring the net is not the answer, but…	1
Lies, damned lies and fake news	1
Speaking for my silenced sister	1
We should not be put up for sale	1
Cartoon	1
Jennings	1
Censorship is still in the script	1
China’s artful dissident	1
Life under lockdown: A Kashmiri journalist: A Kashmiri journalist speaks about the difficulties – personal and professional - of living in the state with an internet shutdown during lockdown	1
Fear and loathing in Belarus	0
France: On the road to illiberalism?	0
India’s meaty issue	0
Worshippers of power	0
Don’t be afraid to say two plus two is four	0
Why journalists need emergency safe havens	0
Speaking up for the Uyghurs	0
Turkey’s standups sit down	0
Autism on screen is gonna be okay	0
America’s coolest members club	0
Chaos censorship	0
Nigeria’s crucible	0
Are we becoming Hungary-lite?	0
The woman who stopped Malta’s mafia taking over	0
Who is the real enemy?	0
Features	0
‘Threats will not silence me’	0
Writer’s block	0
Ganging up against the truth: El Salvador’s government do not want you to hear about a potential deal they’ve made with the country’s biggest gang	0
Soundtrack for a siege	0
Refused a passport	0
America’s coming crucible	0
Windows on the world	0
Controlling the Covid message	0
Special Report	0
Of conservatives, cancel culture and comics	0
Nowhere is safe	0
Cancelling Russian culture is today’s moral imperative	0

An unholy war on speech	0
An arresting start	0
Culture	0
Denialism is not protected speech	0
Laughing in Rwanda	0
Special Report	0
Winning friends, making enemies, influencing people	0
When comics came out	0
Banning those who ban: Jemimah Steinfeld talks to the Kuwaiti author about a landmark case in the country that saw a ban on books overturned. Plus an exclusive extract from al-Essa’s book Guardian of	0
Be nice, or you’re not coming in	0
Exporting the American playbook	0
The man who blew up America	0
Remembering Rex Cornelio: Months on from the murder of Philippines radio host Rex Cornelio we speak to those who knew him about his bravery and his awful death	0
In Iran women’s bodies are the battleground	0
Respect for tradition	0
The truth is in the telling	0
Laughing matters	0
King David he is not	0
Becoming tongue-tied: China is one country that is forcing people to give up their minority languages. Others have also attempted it	0
Will the centre hold? They voted for Trump in 2016 because their voices were not being heard. How does middle America feel today?	0
“Your limitless grief is a tale with no ending”: We publish the poetry of three Uighur poets – Abuqadir Jüme Tunyuquq, Idris Nurillah and Shahip Abdusalam Nurbeg – who have disappeared in China	0
Hong Kong’s valiants with a message for the world	0
Turning sorrow into satire	0
Faithful foot soldiers	0
This is no joke	0
Seeing what’s around the corner: Facial recognition technology may be used to create immunity “passports” and other ways of tracking our health status. Are we watching?	0
When the boot is on the other foot	0
Crimea’s feared dawn chorus	0
A royal reckoning	0
Special Report	0
Burning through censorship	0
Cigar smoke and mirrors	0
Modi’s singular vision for India	0
Poland’s papal problem	0
Words under fire	0
New tactics to close down speech: The news editor at Rappler speaks to Index about legal threats against the media outlet’s CEO, Maria Ressa, plus a report on Index’s recent work	0
The Index	0
Monitoring terrorists, gangs - and historians	0
World loses titans of free speech: A look at the free speech advocates that recently passed away including Sir Harold Evans	0
Turkish and European courts failed me	0
Jennings	0
Features	0
Bars can’t stop a bestseller	0
Special Report	0
The stench of white elephants	0
The road of no return	0
Uncancelled	0
“The state won’t protect you”: The death of Robert Mugabe brought so much hope, but improvements to daily life have not come for Zimbabweans. Far from it	0
Lost in time and memory	0
The thorn in Vietnam’s civil society side	0
Fighting back against vendetta Politics	0
Comment	0
Palestine: I still have hope	0
The unknown quantity: The Italian government is making efforts to cover up who and how many are trying to cross the Mediterranean	0
Taliban takeover jokes	0
Comment	0
The most dangerous man in Guantanamo	0
Dissidents, spies and the lies that came in from the cold	0
We are all dissidents	0
Out of sight, but never out of mind: Our interview with the director of a new documentary about the disappeared in Syria	0
Report first, talk later…	0
A snake devouring its own tail	0
Our principles are not for sale	0
On not being shot	0
Plays, protests and the censor’s pencil	0
The Theatre of Resistance	0
Press under pressure	0
The law, when it suits him	0
Features	0
Comment	0
Why should music be censorable?	0
Putting abuse on the map: The coronavirus crisis has seen a huge rise in media attacks. Index has launched a map to track these	0
Whistleblowers	0
Smoke, fire and a media storm	0
How much distance from Mao?	0
The history man: One of China’s most widely read writers discusses a childhood memory of being punished for singing, alongside his short story, published in English for the first time here	0
Beijing’s fearless foe with God on his side	0
A papal precaution	0
All hail those who speak out: It takes great courage to defend what you believe to be right. We must rally around those who do	0
Challenging words	0

Libraries turned into arsenals	0
Knife-edge politics: An interview with Serbian journalist Ana Lalic, who forced the Serbian government to do a U-Turn	0
Presiding over bloodshed: The voice of the opposition is increasingly missing in action as Uganda approaches election day	0
‘Crimea has turned into a concentration camp’	0
Holding the rich and powerful to account	0
A dissident hero	0
Special Report	0
Setting the story straight	0
Britain’s Holocaust island	0
Spain’s Lonely Voices: We trace the demise of many minority Spanish languages and look at whether others will survive	0
Hope in the darkness	0
From hijacker to media mogul	0
Tapestry of tyranny	0
Features	0
When the old fox walks the tightrope	0
Poet who haunts Ukraine	0
Spinning bomb	0
Statues within a plinth of their life	0
The Index	0
Fake it till you break it	0
A most unlikely ally	0
The democratic federation stands strong	0
India’s Great Firewall	0
Handmaid’s Tale in Holy Land	0
Government hits activists’ online profiles: Journalists and activists are finding their social media profiles hacked and sometimes deleted in a clear harassment campaign in Azerbaijan	0
A moral hazard	0
Would the media lie to you?	0
Secret agenda	0
Culture	0
My three years of hell in an Uyghur ‘re-education’ camp	0
The Index	0
Speech patterns: The Eritrean writer on escaping one of the world’s most censored countries and now living in Trump’s USA. Plus a new short story of his	0
Turkey changes its tune	0
Lived experience, to a point	0
Russia’s Trojan horse moves closer to Europe	0
The Qatar conundrum	0
To better days	0
Out with the old? Donald Trump’s conduct during and after the election appeared extraordinary, but a look at US history challenges that	0
I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust	0
Features	0
Features	0
Moving the goalposts	0
We walk a very thin line when we report ‘us and them’	0
The ‘truth’ is in the tea	0
People first but not the media	0
Giving Putin the finger	0
Ukraine’s disappearing ink	0
A Cassandra worth heeding	0
Two letters	0
Stage right (and wrong): The playwright David Hare talks to Index about a very 21st century form of censorship on the stage. Plus a poem of Hare’s published for the first time	0
Features	0
All the books that might not get written	0
Silencing the faithful	0
Culture	0
Looking back to when we looked forward	0
Bosnia on my mind	0
Features	0
Reaching for an emotional flak jacket	0
Conspiracy of silence	0
Features	0
Still shouting at 50	0
Uncle is watching	0
Dead poets’ society	0
Joke’s on Lukashenka speaking rubbish Belarusian. Or is it?	0
Putting Interpol on notice	0
Masking the truth: The writer of The Vagina Monologues (formerly known as Eve Ensler) speaks to Index about attacks on the truth. Plus a new version of her play about living in a nuclear wasteland	0
I can run, but can I hide?	0
A race to the bottom	0
Four more years? Analysis of the upcoming US election looking at the media, plus a new satirical short story in which a dog considers Trump’s re-election hopes	0
Always looking behind	0
Message marches into lives and homes	0
Lines of inquiry	0
A bulletin of frustration	0
Heart and sole	0
Stripsearch: Ping! Don’t forget we’re watching you… everywhere	0
Royal secrecy has no place in a democracy	0
Shot by both sides	0
Will Paulina ever rest?	0
The Russians risking it all	0
Page turners or slow burners? New books reviewed on the murder of a Honduran activist, stories from a Tibetan town and a semiautobiographical account of an artist in the USA	0
We academics must fight the mob – now	0
Let’s talk about sex	0
The smile that says a thousand words	0
Why the Taliban wanted my brave mother dead . . .	0
Manuscripts don’t burn	0
War of the airwaves	0
Dream of saving sacred land dies in the dust	0
Comment	0
No country for anxious men	0
Not a slur	0
Special Report	0
Culture	0
Life in action: The Lebanese director talks to Index about how police brutality has increased in his country and how that informed the story of his new play, published here for the first time	0
A marriage made in transgression	0
Culture	0